Are you over 30?.....good read.
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with
their tedious diatribes about how hard things were
when they were growing up; what with walking
twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill
BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of
crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how
easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I
can't help but look around and notice the youth of
today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know
how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet.
If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the
damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card
catalog!!
There was no email! ! We had to actually write
somebody a letter ...with a pen! Then you had to walk
all the way across the street and put it in the
mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal
music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store
and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around
all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually
talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
were on the phone and somebody else called they got a
busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy
Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had
no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom,
your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a
collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to
pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games
with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari
2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and
"asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a
little square! You actually had to use your
imagination! And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen forever! And you
could never win. The game just kept getting harder and
harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like
LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing
as stadium seating! All the seats were the same
height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat
in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just
screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was
only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu
and no remote control! You had to use a little book
called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were
screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to
get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the
channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You
could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you
hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for
cartoons, you spoiled little meanies!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up we had to use the stove or go build a
frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn,
we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it
over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today
have got it too easy. You're spoiled!!!!!!!!!
You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards to,
The over 30 Crowd
their tedious diatribes about how hard things were
when they were growing up; what with walking
twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill
BOTH ways .. yadda, yadda, yadda
And I remember promising myself that when I grew up,
there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of
crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how
easy they've got it!
But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I
can't help but look around and notice the youth of
today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my
childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know
how good you've got it!
I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet.
If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the
damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card
catalog!!
There was no email! ! We had to actually write
somebody a letter ...with a pen! Then you had to walk
all the way across the street and put it in the
mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal
music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store
and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around
all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually
talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you
were on the phone and somebody else called they got a
busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy
Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had
no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom,
your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a
collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to
pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games
with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari
2600! With games like "Space Invaders" and
"asteroids" and the graphics sucked! Your guy was a
little square! You actually had to use your
imagination! And there were no multiple levels or
screens, it was just one screen forever! And you
could never win. The game just kept getting harder and
harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like
LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing
as stadium seating! All the seats were the same
height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat
in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just
screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was
only like 15 channels and there was no onscreen menu
and no remote control! You had to use a little book
called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were
screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to
get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the
channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You
could only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you
hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for
cartoons, you spoiled little meanies!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat
something up we had to use the stove or go build a
frigging fire ... imagine that! If we wanted popcorn,
we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it
over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today
have got it too easy. You're spoiled!!!!!!!!!
You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
Regards to,
The over 30 Crowd
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3 TV channels, didn't see a color TV until I was 15. No air conditioning, partyline telephone, no seatbelts, road in the back of a pickup standing up with no endgate. no bike helmets, heck no chain guard on the bike. Used to follow my Dad around while he mowed the grass and sprayed for mosquitoes with DDT, we liked to play in the white fog. No calculators, we used a pencil, walked to school even at -35. Drove everywhere at 12, had my own .22 even younger and knew how to use it. Everyone had a pocket knife at school and often a rifle or a shotgun out in the car in the lot. The teacher could and would give us a lickin' and we'd get one when we got home. We could hitch a ride with a stranger, of course we knew everyone in the area anyway. Dave 0 -
Not a Neru jacket Zip,........say no![:D] 0 -
This is no lie. My mom never had a clothes dryer until about 1976. In summer-they hung outside. In winter or rainy days-they hung in the basement.
I remember gas at 26 cents a gallon. We would walk the power mower my brother bought for $15 to the gas station and a nickle would about overflow the tank.
They used to charge about $5 to charge a car battery because nobody owned a battery charger.
I remember picking up 6 pop bottles and taking them to John & Helen's store, buying a pop for the 12 cents I got for the deposit and then using the 2 cents return on the bottle and buying several pieces of candy or a box of licorice snaps.
I remember Hershey having both a 5 cent and 10 cent size candy bar. I remember Ivory soap having a big double bar of soap for 10 cents and they would cut it in half if you only had a nickle.
I remember stopping at the Ramona shoe maker on the way home from school and for a nickle or 15 cents or whatever my dad gave me-the guy would sew my ripped out shoes back together.
How about a hot waffle ice cream sandwich at the Kresge's store for a dime.
I could go on and on and I am not even 50 yet.0 -
On the B&W 
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Saturday movie, soda, popcorn-25 cents.
8 track Pioneer, Cool!
Cigs, 15 cents pack.
Gas, 18 cents gal.
Diesel, .04 cents gal.
Butane-Propane, .08 cents gal.
Haul square bales of hay, .02 cents/bale.
Saturday nite on the town, less than $5.00.
Outhouse, and running water was running to the well and drawing a bucket.
Ah, the good life.
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quote:Originally posted by FrancF
On the B&W
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+++1 on the memories. I don't think much about the "good ole times" that ain't never coming back. Melvin Tolson said it "Old men dream dreams, young men see visions". You guys got me to day dreamin' again... ghs[:)] 0 -
I can remember when I first started loving old cars - over half of them had holes in the front bumper - for the crank! Lemme see, "retard the spark, Juust crack the throttle, and hold the crank with your thumb here..."
Beer in cans needed a "churchkey"!
Old Men sitting on the front porch of the hardware store, "sittin' and whittlin" - if they liked you, they would give you a chain or a cage with a ball inside, or a whistle, carved out of one piece of wood!
Big barrels of pickles in the stores, with a clear plastic lid, and you used a set of tongs to pick your pickle, (big as your head!) and it was $.05!
A whole counter, twenty feet long, with glass jars full of "penny candy"
Pack of gum = $.10
Loaf of bread = $.12
Gas Wars when I was in High school would have two dealers on opposite ends of town, selling their gas for $.19/gal.
Village Blacksmithy! I could watch for hours!
Lone Ranger was in first run!
Sky King! Wrestling!
$5.00 left on a particular stump would get a gallon jug of 100+ proof, in an hour or two!0
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